The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-12-10
News OF the wsss


A four-year- old son of John W. Bailey, OF
Whitehall, Virginia was fatally scalded on
on Saturday by falling iuto pot of hot lard.
Large tracts of land in Florida have been
lpurchased by a syndicate. which proposes to
plant tobacco extensively during the coming
sprias.
A driver in Washington, d. c., charged
with cruelty killing a horse, has been sentenc
ed to serve six months in jail and pay fine
of $125.
Three children of passengers on the steam
err Assyrian, which arrived at Halifax on Sun
day from Liverpool, died of diphtheria on the
voyage.
Petroleum has been discovered in Vernon
county, Missouri, at depth of 100 feet.
Natural gas has been struck in two wells IN
the same neighborhood.
There have been so cases of scarlet fever
and 10 deaths from the disease in Lee, Mass
achusetts, within three weeks. The schools
have closed until January LIST.
The Mayor of Wilmington, Delaware, on
Saturday night raided the gambling houses in
that city, and captured 40 men, 4S colored
and one white, with all their paraphernalia.
Francis A. Hawkins, who shot his mother,
in Riverhead, Long Island, for Directing to
his marriage with a servant girl, was on
Wednesday found guilty of murder in the
first degree. The defence was insanity
In the U. S. Senate, on Wednesday,
letter was received from the Secretary of the
Interior saying that an appropriation of ST.
495 is required to complete the publication
of the final report of the census of $780,
Peter Smith was arrested in Wilkesbarre,
Penna. ,on Wednesday, on the charge of pass.
ing counterfeit money. He is said to he a
member of the gang OF counterfeiters, two of
whose members were arrested in the same
city on Tuesday.
In the General Sessions Court in New York
on Thursday, Johann Most, who was convic-
ted of misdemeanor, was denied new trial,
and sentenced by Judge Cowen to one years
imprisonment. A stay of proceedings was
granted to allow of an appeal.
The Secretary of the Interior has request
ed the Attorney General to institute civil and
criminal suits against N. A. Upton, of Latin,
Dakota, upon charge of illegally cutting
and removing 1,000,00 feet of pine lumber
from the public domain.
The fish season of 1887, while "a profitable
one for Provincetown, Massachusetts, accord
ing to a despatch from that point, has proved
fearful as regards loss of life and property.
Sixty four fishermen from that town were
drowned, the largest number for nearly fifty
years.
A telegram from Pierre, Dakota, says
Jumping Dog. the Indian who fired the
Cheyenne Agency was captured on Thursday
night, of last week. On Friday he attacked
his guards and stabbed two of them to death
with pair of shears and then committed
suicide.
Calvin Winningham, young man who
was chopping wood with his brother, near
Ashland, Idaho, caught his heel and fell
backward. In his fall his axe struck him in
the neck, severing the jugular vein, and he
bled to death in spite Of all that his brother
could do.
A dispatch from Bangor, Maine, says that
Peter Bennett, aged so years, wealthy farm
er living at Newport, had distrust ofsavings
banks and always kept large amount of
money in the house. On Sunday night rob-
bers beat him and escaped with $4,000 in |
bills and gold.
In Reading, Penna., Mary Lloyd, an Or
phan girl employed in a dry goods store,
was discarded by Howard Potter, a wealthy |
young man to whom she was engaged. He |
called at her house, when she threw a glass
of vitriol in his face, burning the flesh and /
disfguring him for life.
A dwelling occupied by family named |
ROUeflS, tL W TlElt OIallull. MlUHeSOIht WIS Z
burned ON Monday. Two children, aged 1
eight and ten years, persisted in the flames. |
The mother escaped by jumping from an up. |
stairs window with babe in her arms. The
father was badly burned.
----II.--sTu,,s II. McGindley, who recently plead:
ed guilty iarR-lI 5. Court at Clexsrsnd,
Ohio, to many violations 81 me pension laws
during the last twenty years, has been sentenc-
ed to ten years Imprisonment at hard labor
and to pay fine of $4,000. Other indict-
nents are pending against him.
Mrs. John Evans, wife of an industrious
miner in Scranton, Penna., killed her 5ryear-
old son with Ratchet, last week, just after
her husband had left home for his work.
She was prevented from killing her 4year-
old daughter by neighbors. She is insane,
and was sent to the Insane Department of
the Scranton Poorhouse.
1t is stated that there are two cases of lep-
rosy of the most loathsome type near Roth
say, Minnesota. Both are Norwegians and
heads of families. None of the members of
the family have the disease. Before leaving
Norway both men were fishermen and lived
almost exclusively on fish diet, to which
they attribute their affection.
Reports of the spread of black diphtheria
in Clay and adjoining counties continue to be
received in Little Rock, Arkansas. Local
physicians were unable to control the disease,
and physicians from abroad were called upon.
There have been over fifty deaths within three
weeks. Three deaths occurred in family
named Spurgeon within twelve hours.
1t is reported that there is an alarming
scarcity of coal in Western Kansas, and that
the famine is due partially to the insufficient
amount of cars. The citizens threaten to
help themselves to the company's coal unless
they at once render assistance. At Garden
City, on Saturday, train was side tracked
and relieved of some of the surplus coal.
Contracts were awarded on Wednesday by
the Athens Mining and Manufacturing Com
pany for the erection of water works at
Athens, Tennessee, and also for the building
of 5000 spindle cotton mill, $4,000 hotel,
q 500, 900 furniture factory and other indus
tries. Five hundred hands are now at work
building a railroad from Athens to Jellico
iron ore fields.
his wife and three children, have lived for
several years in a log cabin on the bank of
Rowan creek, near Kenton, Kentucky. On
Sunday night it was discovered that the bank |
of the creek had caved in, carrying the cabin |
with it into the water. None Of the occupants |
have been seen since, and it is supposed |
they have been lost.
Joseph Earhart was arrested in Indianapo-
lis. Indiana, on Wednesday, on the charge of |
raising a money order from one dollar to
eighty. 1t is thought he has been working a
similar game at other places. The postal
authorities have information of raised money |
orders in Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York,
St. Louis and Chicago. Earhart is u person
of fine address, about IS years old.
George W. Ritter, an elderly man, was
arrested in Cincinnati last week. for en-
bezzlement from his employers. While wait
ing for hearing in the Probate Court on
Saturday, he borrowed a knife from q friend
to pare his nails. He opened it and made
an effort to cut the arteries Of his arms.
His friends caught his hands and with some
difficulty wrested the knife from him.
Advices from England seem to indicate
that the Kilrein- Smith prize fight will take I
place before Christmas at tie home of mar
auis, and that the number of spectators will I